The pep pill for your Craft site

Upper speeds up Craft dramatically using a Cache Proxy in front of your webserver.

The Plugin adds the neccessary Cache-Control and XKEY/Surrogate-Key/Cache-Tag headers to your pages. When Entries or Sections get updated in the Control Panel it takes care of the cache invalidation.

If you need an introduction to HTTP Caching, I highly recommend this article.

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If you are looking additional integrations (Cache Drivers), feel free to contribute or raise an issue.

Supported Cache Drivers

• KeyCDN (CDN/SaaS)
• Fastly (CDN/SaaS)
• Cloudflare (CDN/SaaS)
• Varnish with XKEY support (your own proxy)
• Dummy (does nothing)

Installation

1. Install with Composer via composer require ostark/upper from your project directory
2. Install plugin with this command php craft plugin/install upper or in the Craft CP under Settings > Plugins
3. A new configuration file gets generated automatically in your-project/config/upper.php.

Fastly Setup

UPPER_DRIVER=fastly
FASTLY_API_TOKEN=<REPLACE-ME>
FASTLY_SERVICE_ID=<REPLACE-ME>
FASTLY_DOMAIN=http://<REPLACE-ME>

KeyCDN Setup

UPPER_DRIVER=keycdn
KEYCDN_API_KEY=<REPLACE-ME>
KEYCDN_ZONE_URL=<REPLACE-ME>.kxcdn.com
KEYCDN_ZONE_ID=<REPLACE-ME>

Cloudflare Setup

UPPER_DRIVER=cloudflare
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=<REPLACE-ME>
CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID=<REPLACE-ME>
CLOUDFLARE_DOMAIN=https://<REPLACE-ME>

By default, Cloudflare's CDN does not cache HTML content. You need to create a Cache Level: Cache Everything Page Rule to enable caching for "pages".

If you don't use Cloudflare Enterprise with native Cache-Tag support, make sure to enable useLocalTags in your config/upper.php file (default), otherwise disable it.

You can generate a token in the Cloudflare dashboard. You want to create a custom token with the "Zone.Cache Purge" permission that is restricted to the DNS zone(s) you wish to clear Cloudflare's cache for.

Varnish Setup

Varnish URL supports multiple servers, separate with comma. E.g http://1.1.1.1,http://2.2.2.2

UPPER_DRIVER=varnish
VARNISH_URL=<REPLACE-ME>

Tuning

In a template, you can fully disable caching like so:

{% do upper.cache.never() %}

…which is a shorthand for:

{% header "Cache-Control: private, no-cache" %}

By default the defaultMaxAge config setting will be used to determine the cache duration to set. This can be overridden in a template:

{% do upper.cache.for('5 minutes') %}

…which is shorthand for:

{% header "Cache-Control: public, s-maxage=300" %}

Performance results

Cache Tag Headers

Disclaimer

Even if the name of the plugin and some wordings are intentional, the author does not glorify any drug abuse. 🍻 The plugin is inspired by the joshangell/Falcon.